Sunday, October 6, 2013

Boehner says no clean CR; Schumer says it would pass

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/10/06/boehner-says-no-clean-cr-schumer-says-it-would-pass/?hpid=z1

House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday there are not enough votes to in the House to pass a clean stopgap spending bill to fund the government, prompting Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) to challenge him to bring such a vote to the House floor.
"There are not the votes in the House to pass a clean CR," Boehner said on ABC's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos."
Schumer responded by calling for Boehner to test his belief.
 "Let me issue him a friendly challenge," Schumer said on the same program. "Put it on the floor Monday or Tuesday. I would bet there are the votes to pass it."
According to The Fix's whip count, at least 20 House Republicans would vote for a clean CR, which is shorthand for a stopgap spending bill with no strings attached to changing Obamacare or other conservative demands. Meanwhile, 195 Democrats have signed a letter calling on Boehner to bring a clean CR to the floor. If those numebrs held during a vote, all Democrats and at least 20 Republicans voted for a clean CR, it would pass.
But for Boehner, the cost would be an outright revolt from House conservatives.
and there it is "if we don't have enough votes to defeat it we will not bring it up for vote"  how many of these denials of us getting good bills passed like Pres. "American Jobs Act" have been happening since the T-P invasion? this is not governing this is cherry picking what they can win that is not in our favor, but profits or deregulates big business.  with the party of stupid arrogantly withholding legislation that would have brought us back from their abyss last year or earlier, this shows that they are stuck on the Black guy with big ears have they fallen victim to that old adage "once you go Black you never go back"?
"The American people expect in Washington, when we have a crisis like this, that the leaders will sit down and have a conversation," Boehner said. "I told my members the other day, there may be a back room somewhere, but there's nobody in it."
all of America should way in on this dyslexic misleading of what we want, we don't want them or their wares.
does anybody believe he "TOLD HIS MEMBERS" anything that they listened to now he's just appeasing himself, he is just a norquist figurehead, substitute Romney for Beohner.